Pakistan
A Taliban suicide assault team killed three policemen, two civilians, and a soldier in an attack on a police station in Bannu. The Taliban said the attack was launched to avenge the death of Baitullah Mehsud’s nephew.
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Pakistan
Pakistan – Silence resonates after Ahmadi graves’ vandalised
Taliban suicide assault team attacks Pakistani police station
The Taliban said the attack was executed to avenge the death of Ibrahim Mehsud, the nephew of Baitullah Mehsud, the former emir of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan.
Pakistan
Pakistan’s largest city suffers murder wave, Taliban seen using chaos to strengthen position
Pakistan
Pakistan – Blasphemy case lodged against author
Afghanistan
Suicide Attack Investigators Are Inept: Afghan Senate
Afghanistan
Attack on Afghan Spy Chief Won’t Derail Peace Moves, Says Karzai
US drone strike kills another al Qaeda commander in North Waziristan
Mohammad Ahmed al Mansoor, a midlevel Pakistani al Qaeda commander, is reported to have been killed in the attack. He is the fourth mid-to-senior-level al Qaeda leader reported killed since the US stepped up strikes since the end of November.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan to Allow US Troops Conditional Immunity
Al Qaeda religious leader thought killed in US drone strike
Khalid bin Abdul Rahman al Husainan, a senior religious scholar for al Qaeda who is also known as a Abu Zeid al Kuwaiti, is believed to have been killed in a recent drone strike in Pakistan.
Afghanistan
Terror Fight Shifts to Africa
Pakistan
In Pakistan, Moves To Ban A Tribal Marriage Custom
US drones kill 3 ‘militants’ in North Waziristan strikes
The drones hit a compound near Mir Ali, an area known to shelter al Qaeda’s military and external operations councils, as well as a host of regional terror groups.
Pakistani officials promoting false split in Taliban leadership cadres, again
Pakistani officials persist in claiming that Hakeemullah Mehsud and Waliur Rehman Mehsud are “at each other’s throats,” and tell an obvious lie in the process.
Pakistan
Terror attempt: Bomb planted near JUI-F leader’s house defused
Afghanistan
Tehran visit: Zardari likely to take up unmet $330m Iranian pledge
Al Qaeda
Afghanistan: a graveyard of commitments
Al Qaeda
Drones: A sign of the times
Pakistan
Pakistan – Election Preps: JUI-F to speed up mass contact campaign
Pakistan
Pakistan’s Hazara Shiites Under Siege
Pakistani Taliban group denies targeting Mullah Nazir in suicide attack
The top spokesman for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan denied his group was involved in the assassination attempt that targeted Mullah Nazir, an al Qaeda-linked Taliban leader in South Waziristan.
Pakistan
Pakistan – More than 100 graves of Ahmedi community shattered
ISAF kills IMU/Taliban district commander in Afghan north
Shukrullah “was the senior IMU/Taliban leader in the Almar district of Faryab province” and the “other two individuals killed with him were known Taliban insurgents.”
Hamas
German Weapons Exports on the Rise as Merkel Doctrine Takes Hold
Afghanistan
The quiet pain of insider shootings in Afghanistan
Al Qaeda
Inside Jabhat al Nusra – the most extreme wing of Syria’s struggle
NATO
NATO aims to repair Russia ties despite Patriot row
Mullah Nazir orders all Mehsud tribesmen to leave Wana
Mullah Nazir ordered all Mehsud tribesmen to leave South Waziristan’s largest town before Dec. 5 or face the consequences. Nazir clearly holds the Mehsud tribe responsible for the Nov. 29 suicide attack against him and his associates at the Rustam bazaar in Wana.
Pakistan
Pakistan – Demand for protection: ‘Terrorists kidnapping minors for attacks’
Al Qaeda commander thought killed in South Waziristan drone strike
Abdul Rehman al Zaman Yemeni, a mid-level leader, is reported to have been killed in today’s attack. Sheikh Abdul Bari, another mid-level al Qaeda commander, is thought to have been killed in another strike in the same town on Nov. 29.